GOODBYE PUGET SOUND NET PENS!!!!
Grassroots advocacy at work and a huge victory for wild fish. November 15th, 2022— Late last night, in a groundbreaking and historic announcement, Washington Department …
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Washington Should Deny Clean Water Permits for Commercial Fish Farms in Puget Sound
By Bridget Moran In August 2017 more than 250,000 non-native and disease-riddled Atlantic salmon were spilled into Puget Sound. Canadian company Cooke Aquaculture’s Cypress Island …
URGENT REQUEST FROM U.S. COALITION TO B.C. PREMIER
Last week, seventy-seven U.S. organizations and businesses, including this one, delivered a letter to British Columbia Premier John Horgan, urging the Premier to deny the …
How Fisherman Are Faring In Washington Months After Salmon Spill
Last summer, more than 150,000 farmed Atlantic salmon spilled into Puget Sound off the coast of Washington, threatening the wild salmon population. Local fishermen scrambled …
Violations prompt Washington state to cancel Atlantic salmon farm lease
One less industrial feedlot in the waters off Washington’s coast, can the others be far behind? Cooke Aquaculture Pacific has lost the lease for its …
Escaped Atlantic salmon are being caught 40 miles up the Skagit River
More than three months after being released during the collapse of a Cooke Aquaculture fish farm near Cypress Island, Atlantic salmon are being caught about …
Atlantic Salmon Net Pens Don’t Belong in Puget Sound
In the wake of a large escapement of Atlantic salmon that occurred in the Deepwater Bay off of Cypress Island, Washington State faces a major …
Washington state halts salmon farm permits
Let’s hope this turns into a permanent ban. Gov. Jay Inslee has directed the Washington Department of Ecology to put on hold any new permits for …